Suspender-buckle and tab-ring



(No Model.) J. PARKER.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE AND TAB RING,

N PETERS. Phnlulhagm-pner, wamingtan. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

JONAS PARKER, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

rSUSPENDER-BUCKLE AND TAB-RING.'v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,582, dated December 17, 1889. p

I Application filed March 2, 1889. Serial No. 301,787. (No model.) I

To all whom t may concern: p

Be it known that I, JONAS PARKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Villiamsport, in 'the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender- Buckles and Tab-Rings; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a suspender and tabs, showing my improved buckle and tab-ring. Fig. 2 is a section on the line a: w, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the buckle and tab-ring. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View of modified form of grip-bars. Fig. 5 is a modified construction of tab-ring.

Like symbols refer to like parts Wherever they occur.

My present invention relates more especiallyto buckles and tab-rings for suspenders, but is equally well adapted for use with two or more straps which -support varying strains and require an adjustable buckle, or one which permits of the ready connecting and disconnecting of the parts. p

The first object I have in View is to produce a simple buckle of ready adjustment, and one in which the bite or clamp of the buckle on the strap will increase'and decrease with and be proportionate to' the weight or strain on the strap; and to this end the first feature of invention embraces the combination, in a buckle, of a bed-bar, a presser-bar pivoted thereon, the two forming a clamp, and a tabring (or draft) hook pivoted on the presserbar, whereby the Weight or strain is brought on the presser-.bar directly and proportionately.

The second object of the invention is to provide a keeper for the end of the tab-ring hook or draft-hook when the buckle is in use; and the second feature of the invention therefore embraces the combination, with a bedbar, a, presser-,bar pivoted therein, and a tab-ring hook or draft-hook pivoted on the presser-bar, of a keeper-bar attached to the bed-bar or the frame thereof, said keeper-bar adapted to engage or take under the nose or end of the tab-ring hook.

A third object relates to such a construction of the tab-ring that it cannot be accidentally disengaged from the tab-ring hook When the buckle is loosened or freed from strain; and to this end said third feature of the invention embraces a keeper on the tabring in the general form of a loop or eye adapted to ride up on the shank of the hook when the draft or strain is removed from the tab-ring and buckle.

There are other minor features of inventionall of which will hereinafter more fully appear.

I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, so that others skilled in the art to which it appertains may apply the same.

ln the drawings, A indicates one strap or web of a' suspender, or any equivalent strap with which it may be found desirable to use my improved buckle.

B indicates the usual suspender-tabs, or

any equivalent strap which is to be adj ustably connected with the first strap A, and C D indicate the preferred form of my improved buckle and tab-ring as applied to connect the said straps. My buckle is composed of a bed-bar 1, provided with a suitable support, which may be the rectangular wire frame 2 or its equivalent, a presser-bar 3, pivoted on the bed-bar 1 by means of the wire frame 4 or its equivalent, and a tab-ring hook or draft-hook 5, pivoted on the presser-bar, and said hook 5 and its pivot-arms 6 may also be bent wire, such as is commonly used for cheap buckles, if so desired. It will be noted that this construction gives aduplex or double-pivoted presserbar on which the whole strain from the draft or tab-ring hook is exerted. When in use the frame or pivot-arms 6 of the tab-ring hook or draft-hook 5 pass under or back of the frame 2 of bed-bar 1, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, and said frame 2 will form a fulcrum for the draft-hook 5.

In order to form a keeper 7 for the nose or end of the draft-hook 5, I prefer to form an offset or bend on the lower wire of bed-bar frame 2, extending said offset suiiiciently so that it shall engage the end of hook 5 when the tab-ring hook is brought up to its work or in line with the bed-bar 1, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and form a keeper therefor.

The bed-bar l and the presser-bar 3, hereinbeiore referred to, may be plain or toothed, as desired, but are preferably formed with gutter 31" on one and a rib 3i on the other, as indicated in Figs. I3, and l.

When the buckle is closed, as shown in 'Figs 1 and 2, the keeper will prevent the escape of the tab-ring D; but in order to insure against accidental displacement of the tab-ring D when the strain is oit the buckle, as in Fig. 3, I form the tab-ring with a rearwardly-extending,` lip or keeper 8, which, when the ring is on the hook, passes back of the shank J of hook 5, so that the eye or loop 10, formed by the keeper S and the tab-ring proper, will surround the shank 9 of hook 5 and prevent the escape of the ring,` from the hook. This tab-ring D may be formed from wire coiled in two loops or rings, one of which is bent back to form the lip or keeper S, as shown in Figs. l, and El, or it may be punched from sheet metal, the lip being formed by the tongue left in the hook-slot, as shown in Fig'. 5.

The buckle, being of substantially the construction hereinbet'ore specilied,is opened by separating the presser-beu' 3 from the bed-bar l, as shown in Fig. 3. The strap or web A is passed under the transverse top and bottom wire of frame f2, over the bed-bar l, and between it andthe presser-bar 3, as indicated in Fig. 2. The pivot-arms G of tab-ring hook or draft-hook 5 are passed under the lower t'ansverse wire of frame 2, which Wire acts as a keepei` and fulcrum, and the tab-ring is placed on hook 5 (see Fig. 3) with the keeper S thereof back of shank il, after which any draft or strain on hook 5 or frame 2 will operate the presser-bar 3 through the duplex or double pivot and cause the presser-bar to clamp the web against the bed-bar l with more or less force, proportioned to the strain or weight on the straps A B.

H avin g thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a buckle, the combination of a bedbar, a presser-barpivoted on the bed-bar, and

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a tab-ring hook or draft-hook pivoted on the presser-bar, substantially as and for the purposes specilied.

2. In a buckle, the combination of a bedbar,a presser-barpivoted thereon, oneof said bars having,r a rib and the. ot-her a groove therefor, and a draft-hook or tab-ring` hook pivoted on the presser-bar, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a buckle, the combination of a bedbar, a presser-bar pivoted thereon, atab-ring hook or draft-hook pivoted on the presserbar, and a keeper attached to the bed-bar and arranged to engage the nose of the draft-hook, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination, with a buckle having a tab-ring,r hook and guard therefor, of a tabring having a. rearwardly-projecting lip or keeper S extending back of the shank of the hook to hold the parts in engagement, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. The combination, in a buckle, of a frame 2, having a bed-bar l, a frame 4, pivoted on the bed-barframe and provided with a presser-bar 3, and a draft or tab-ring hook 5, having arms 0 pivoted on the presser-bar and adapted to pass under the frame of the bedbar, substantially as and Vfor the purposes specified.

(5. The combination, in abuckle, of afl-ame 2, having' a .bed-bar l, a frame 4, pivotcd on the bed-bar frame and provided with a presser-bar 3, a draft or tab-ring hook 5, having arms 6 pivoted on the presser-bar and adapted to pass under the frame of the bed-bar, and a tab-ring having a keeper S to inclose the shank of the draft or tab-ring hook, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses, this 1st day of JONAS PARKER. Witnesses:

F. W. RITTER, Jr.,

S. A. TERRY. 

